Category: Education

HBR has what I think is their first ever piece on the topic of neurodiversity as a competitive advantage. I recently had the chance to speak with Rajesh Anandan, co-founder and CEO of Ultra Testing (as well as SVP of Strategic Partnerships at UNICEF ventures), a firm built around a neurodiverse workforce. We discussed not just

(Ed: This couldn’t be said in private?) The Urgency of the Present Sub-par endowment returns are one of the greatest threats to Harvard today By THE CRIMSON EDITORIAL BOARD September 28, 2016 Harvard faces numerous pressing issues: a suboptimal social scene, growing competition from other universities for talent, and critical challenges to diversity and inclusion.

2015 was a tumultuous year for higher education, and I doubt 2016 will be much different. Higher education, especially in America, is going through the most dramatic evolution in its modern history, and we see those changes — pedagogical, cultural, financial — across campuses throughout this country. With the cost of college seemingly on an ever-in creasing trajectory,

Yesterday MIT made a quiet announcement that could turn out to be a remarkable milestone in the history of modern higher education. MIT President L. Rafael Reif made the announcement, which is a sign that MIT itself knows how significant of a shift it has just made. As reported in the MIT Tech Review: MIT is taking

“In the future, there will be only two kinds of people: people who know math and people who work for them.” These words were said to me a few years ago by a colleague at Accenture, and they came back to mind as I looked over a presentation made by Dr. William Jaco, a mathematician at Oklahoma State University,

A second-year MBA student at a top-five business school recently wrote to me for advice about career choice and whether he should go into finance or management consulting. His ultimate goal, he said, was “to make enough money to teach when I’m older.” The discussion with this student reminded about an article that the Nobel economist Robert Schiller wrote on ProjectSyndicate a

The FT ran a short but interesting piece today on the latest target of Xi Jinping’s dramatic anti-corruption campaign. The latest target is not fancy cars or expensive vacation homes. It’s education. Notes the FT: Chinese officials are rushing to pull out of executive MBAs after Xi Jinping’s government banned them from accepting scholarships as

Dear Reconnomics readers, I’m back after a long summer break, and I’m kicking things off with a link to a new article on the NY Fed’s web site about the value of the college degree. A team there recently took on the task of calculating what a college education is worth, and their findings are

There’s an interesting article on The Atlantic’s website about football star Arian Foster’s selling off a portion of his future income to a startup company called Fantex. As The Atlantic notes: Arian Foster, the star running back for the Houston Texans, is now the first athlete to go public. He has sold a 20 percent stake

The New York Times ran a piece on July 3rd by Richard Pérez-Peña about a proposal working its way through the Oregon legislature that would allow students to attend college today at no cost in return for forfeiting a part of their future earnings. As the article notes: This week, the Oregon Legislature approved a